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The films, sent to the festival, must be shot with a cell phone or any other mobile device with a built-in camera.

2018-12-07 13:23:43

About the Festival "A Movie in Hand"

The goal of the festival A Movie in Hand is popularising the independent film work by using contemporary mobile technologies. .

The festival aims at supporting versatile and creative personalities, developing socially active citizens of Bulgaria who succeed in fulfilling the possibilities of their personality by giving meaning to cultural and historical experience, to common human values of local and world culture by mastering modern technologies.

The main tasks for organisers, regarding the festival are:

Distribution of common human values by using the vast possibilities of short films

Finding and encouraging gifted young people, dealing with cinema while providing a platform for presenting them in front of large audience;

About "A Movie in Hand"

Participation of Bulgarian and foreign filmmakers is allowed. The number of people on each team is not restricted but the number of authors, registered for a film should be no more than 4 ...

RULES FOR PARTICIPATION

Participation of Bulgarian and foreign filmmakers is allowed. The number of people on each team is not restricted but the number of authors, registered for a film should be no more than 4 (four), regardless of their particular position in the film shooting.

The films, sent to the festival, must be shot with a cell phone or any other mobile device with a built-in camera. Films must be edited in advance. The filmmaker decides about the use of special visual and sound effects, music, titles and others in the final film version. The films should last from 1 to 5 minutes.

The films selected can be presented to the public outside the festival Internet site no earlier than a month following the announcement of the winning films.

There is no restriction regarding the topic, genre and type of film (feature film, documentary, cartoon, science fiction) of the films registered.

Foreign films must be provided with an annotation in Bulgarian language.

The responsibility for the rights of the materials used in the film (narration, music, art, etc.) is assumed by the makers of the competitive film. In case of any claims regarding the use of third party’s products, all expense and responsibility is born by the authors of the film presented.

Each filmmaker or team of filmmakers may register up to 3 (three) films in the festival.

Materials, allowed to the festival, can be used for the purpose of popularising the festival, for any educational needs and other non-commercial goals. In case the films are used for any commercial purposes, authors’ consent is necessary.

For the organisation of A Movie in Hand Festival for films, shot with cell phones or other mobile devices with built-in cameras...

STATUTE

For the organisation of A Movie in Hand Festival for films, shot with cell phones or other mobile devices with built-in cameras

1. AIMS AND PURPOSES

1.1. The goal of the festival A Movie in Hand is popularising the independent film work by using contemporary mobile technologies. The festival aims at supporting versatile and creative personalities, developing socially active citizens of the Republic of Bulgaria who succeed in fulfilling the possibilities of their personality by giving meaning to cultural and historical experience, to common human values of local and world culture by mastering modern technologies.

1.2. Main tasks:

– Distribution of common human values by using the vast possibilities of short films; – Finding and encouraging gifted young people, dealing with cinema and providing a platform for presenting them in front of large audience; – Supporting youth initiative for realising socially important activities; – Making film work popular among young people and directing their attention to the new possibilities of contemporary cinema; – Supporting the creativity of young people and stimulating the practice of new and unusual work with art and new media; – Stimulating innovation and experiments in the development of short films; – Starting an open dialogue among creative young people using the resources of the cinema.

2. MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION

2.1. The festival is organised and held under the guidance of the Board of Trustees of Dobri Voinikov-1856 Community Centre – Shumen with the help of Shumen Municipality. Co-organisers of the festival are Audiovideo Orpheus Ltd and Supernova media. For the purposes of organising and holding the Festival, an Organisational committee is established, led by the Chairman of Community Centre Board of Trustees. The committee includes the secretary of the community centre, the chairman of the jury, a representative of the co-organisers and the Chairman of Madarski konnik cinema club.

2.2 . In the course of preparation and duration of the Festival, different institutions, associations, unions, TV and radio companies, mass media, state and administrative structures, cultural and charity foundations and others could be involved as being co-organisers.

2.3. The festival is held annually.

2.4. The award ceremony is held at Dobri Voinikov-1856 Community Centre – Shumen.

3. RULES AND ORDER FOR PARTICIPATION

3.1. Participation of Bulgarian and foreign authors is allowed. The number of people on each team is not restricted but the number of filmmakers, registered for a film should be no more than 4 (four), regardless of their particular position in shooting the film.

3.2. The films, sent to the festival, must be shot with a cell phone or any other mobile device with a built-in camera. Films must be edited in advance. The filmmaker decides about the use of special visual and sound effects, music, titles and others in the final film version. The films should last from 1 to 5 minutes.

3.3. Films must be shot specially for the festival. They must not have been presented in any other festivals or must not have been shown to the public on the Internet, in the social media or during any other public events.

3.4. The films selected can be presented to the public outside the festival Internet site no earlier than a month following the announcement of the winning film.

3.5. There is no restriction regarding the topic, genre and type of film (feature film, documentary, cartoon, science fiction) of the films registered.

3.6. Foreign films must be provided with an annotation in Bulgarian language

3.7. The responsibility for the rights of the materials used in the film (narration, music, art, etc.) is assumed by the makers of the competitive film. In case of any claims regarding the use of third party’s products, all expense and responsibility is born by the authors of the film presented.

3.8. Each filmmaker or team of filmmakers may register up to 3 (three) films in the festival.

3.9. After the festival ends, the Organiser Dobri Voinikov-1856 Community Centre – Shumen shall keep the films and the non-exclusive rights for their usage. They are to be used for the purpose of popularising the festival, for any educational needs and other non-commercial goals. In case the films are used for commercial purposes, authors’ consent is necessary.

3.12. The festival programme includes:: – the possibility for the films selected to be watched on Vbox7 channel (https://www.vbox7.com/kinovdlan), facebook page of the festival (https://www.facebook.com/mkino.org/) and in the Videos section of the site https://mkino.org where viewers shall have the chance to vote for the film they liked; – performing the films, nominated for the festival awards; – performing the winner films; – creative meetings, workshop, press conferences with the nominated films’ authors; – award ceremony

4. REQUIREMENTS FOR FILM DESIGN

4.1. The films sent to the festival must be recorded in a proper video format and supplied with an annotation and electronic explanatory notes.

4.2. The submitted application for participation is the only document necessary so that the author can be included in the festival participants list.

4.3. Films are welcome on the site: https://mkino.org/ in Registration section, in the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/mkino.org/ after pressing the Sign Up button or on VBox7 channel of the festival https://www.vbox7.com/user:kinovdlan?p=custom.

4.4. Films with technical problems are not allowed to participate in the festival.

5. TERMS:

5.1. Films apply for participation in the period until 28 February 2019.

5.2. The films selected for the festival are announced on the site of the festival until March 15-th 2019.

5.3. The awarded films are announced during a special film show in Shumen in March, 2019.

6. WINNERS AWARD CEREMONY

6.1. The jury members are approved by the Board of Trustees of Dobri Voinikov-1856 Community Centre. The members are specialists from different walks of life, related to cinematography

6.2. The Festival Jury:

– evaluates the films, selected for participation; – concludes the results and determines the winners; – announces the results from the Internet voting for the audience award; – could provide comments on its decisions regarding the festival films grades.

6.3. Films evaluation criteria are:

– originality of film opinion and complete realisation; – social and citizen commitment; – individual point of view on contemporary life and celebration of positive beginnings; – professional skills and art value; – innovative approach and solutions

6.4. Authors, awarded at the festival, are presented with a diploma, certificates, plaques and other awards. All festival participants receive certificates of participation.

6.6. Partners, sponsors of the festival and other organisations can also establish special awards. Sponsors awards are given by a representative of the sponsor organisation who presents a letter of acknowledgement.

6.7. Travelling expenses and allowance are provided by the participants themselves.

6.8. All disputes, not specified in the Statute of the Festival are to be settled by the applicable legislation of the Republic of Bulgaria and other normative documents.

ATTENTION!

If you have not been present during the final events regarding giving the awards, the Organisers has the right to send the winner: a diploma, a certificate, a letter of thanks and also send all participants certificates to their respective emails. Complete information regarding the terms, place and winners is to be announced on the site: https://mkino.org/ and Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/mkino.org/ .

Approved during a Session of the Board of Trustees of Dobri Voinikov-1856 Community Centre.

A Movie in Hand is the first festival for films, shot with cell phones, established in our country. It is directed to young independent film makers, ready to experiment with modern technologies.

History

A Movie in Hand is the first festival for films, shot with cell phones, established in our country. It is directed to young independent film makers, ready to experiment with modern technologies.

The first festival edition was held in the eve of the 160th anniversary of Dobri Voinikov-1856 Community Centre and the 90th anniversary of the start of the cinema-fan movement in Shumen. Until the deadline for submitting the films, 120 works were received and 107 of them were allowed to the competition as they complied with the festival requirements.

The prevailing age of participants was between 13 and 28, as most of the films were made by creative teams of several people, the total number of participants exceeded 500 people.

The award ceremony was held on January 30-th, 2016 in the concert hall of Dobri Voinikov-1856 Community Centre during which all films awarded were shown to the audience. Prior to the award ceremony, all prize winners met the jury members and discussed the themes, genres, style solutions of the winning films. During that discussion, film makers shared interesting details related to the film making process and to their motivation for realising their own creative ideas with the means of short cinema.

The media partners of the festival, as well as other national and local media broadcasted the event. On 04.02.2016 BTV’s central news programme showed a report on the festival and an interview with the filmmaker who won the Great award and later on 07.02.2016 the same interview was shown in This Saturday and Sunday Show. On 22.02.2016 the prize winning films were shown at the Cinema House with the media support of The Day Starts With Culture Show on BNT

JURY

Dr. Alexander Donev – Chairman of the Jury

Film critic

Alexander Donev Angelov was born on June 6th, 1961. He graduated from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in 1988. He was the editor of the Cinema magazine, published by the Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers and later as a director of „National Culture“ Publishing house.

From 1997 to 2001 he was a director of Sofia Film Ltd that managed state cinemas in Sofia until they were privatised. He also worked as a Deputy Programme Director of BNT and as an Executive director of the National Cinema Centre.

At present, he is the Executive director of Audiovideo Orpheus Ltd. He has experience as a producer in Camera Ltd (2005-2007) and Audiovideo Orpheus Ltd (2012-2015) and film distributor in Sofia Film (1998-2001), Alexandra Groupholding LTD (2002-2003) and Bulgarian Distribution Company Ltd (2006-2008). He has many publications as a film critic from 1984 till present. He is having his Doctor’s degree at the Institute for Arts Studies at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He is a lecturer at New Bulgarian University and serves as a member of the European Film Academy from 2010.

Docent Yuriy Dachev

Actor, lecturer at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA)

"Yuriy Dachev was born on January 11-th, 1963 in Shumen. He finished theatre studies in the class of prof. Dimitar Kanushev at NATFA in 1986. He specialised history of performance and theatre criticism with prof. Cesare Molinari at the University of Florence (1993-1994)."

He performed in the theatre school of Royal Court Theatre (1999) and won a scholarship for Culture Contact (Austria) in 2008. For two years (1999-2000) he was a consultant of the Biennale of Dramaturgy in Bon. He is a playwright, script-writer, a lecturer at Kr. Sarafov NATFA from 1992; a critic, a journalist and an author of more than 2000 publications in the area of theatre. His literary texts have over 60 theatre performances. They are translated in English, German, Hungarian, Russian, French, Polish, Finnish, etc. He is an associate professor and lecturer at Drama Science at Kr. Sarafov NATFA (2003). From 2005 he has been the author of the weekly show A Recipe for Culture in BNT-SAT. From 2007 he is also the author of Films and Documents programme, dedicated to Bulgarian documentary cinema.

Prof. Valeri Chakalov

"He was born in 1957 in Devnya. In 1984 he graduated from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Drawing major. In 2006 he specialised in Paris. In 2008 he became a professor. From 2009 he teaches the art of painting at the Faculty of Arts at St. St. Cyril and Methodius Veliko Tarnovo University. ".

He participated in numerous individual and group exhibitions, plein air paintings and art projects. He won multiple prizes among which are: Varna prize given by the Municipality of Varna for art and culture in 2007; Drawing Award from the International Triennial of Drawing, Sofia in 2007.

Yavor Popov

Producer

"Yavor Popov was born on January, 14-th, 1970 in Sofia. He graduated from the University of National and World Economy and managed several TV shows like Intersection Point, Sea of Love, You’ve got mail and also produced documentary and reality series like This is Life, Our Girls, Boss under Cover, Mama’s Time... ".

He produced The Day is Wonderful, Metropolis, Related and Yulissima; the documentary feature Dangerously Close – Lili Ivanova, Romeo and Juliet from Trace, Balchik Summer, Fairies, Broken hearts and others. He has been the director of short TV formats, and the producer of some events and festivals. He owns Supernova media Ltd and is a member of the Board of Managers of the Association of Television Producers..